Sharath Bachegowda on Thursday said he would join the Congress party.
Independent MLA and BJP MP BN Bache Gowda's son Sharath Bachegowda on Thursday said he would join the Congress party sometime in February.
Amid speculation that he is joining the party on February 26, Sharath Bachegowda told PTI, "There is no date fixed as such but sometime in February I will join the legislative party of the Congress."
Sharath Bachegowda's entry to the Congress had been on the cards for quite some time but it is now that he has confirmed his next political move.
Sharath Bachegowda had rebelled against his party BJP and successfully contested the Hoskote assembly byelection in December 2019, defeating BJP's MTB Nagaraj.
MTB Nagaraj, a BJP MLC and minister, was among the rebel Congress MLAs who had resigned from the assembly in 2019 bringing down the Congress-JDS coalition government. He joined the BJP later but was defeated in the bypolls.
There were accusations that Bache Gowda helped his son indirectly to win the election but he refuted the charges.
Sharath Bachegowda said he has not informed his father formally about his decision to join Congress.
"Since everything is in the public domain, I did not inform him yet. He must be aware of it," he added.
To a question whether Bache Gowda approved his decision, Sharath said he had to think of his political career.